Scholarly institutions continue bilateral exchange programs (05/26/96)

Scholarly institutions continue bilateral exchange programs

MONTREAL - The Royal Society of Canada has announced that Prof. André Bandrauk will be the first lecturer to visit Ukraine under the Royal Society of Canada - Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences Cooperation Agreement.

This is a follow-up to the visit of the inaugural Royal Society - Ukrainian Academy exchange lecturer, Dr. Anatolij Zagorodny, who came from Kyiv to tour Canada in March 1995.

Dr. Bandrauk is a distinguished chemical physicist, who is in the department of chemistry at the University of Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Dr. Bandrauk is also a member of the governing Council of the Academy of Science.

He will visit Ukraine on October 5-19, and will give lectures on his specialty, lasers and computational chemistry, in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and Odessa. In addition, while visiting the aforementioned centers, Dr. Bandrauk also will address public organizations about science and education in Canada.

The travel costs to Ukraine are being funded from donations to the Royal Society of Canada - Ukraine Exchange Fund. The fund-raising committee for this fund is co-chaired by Jurij Darewych, professor of physics at York University, Toronto, who is also a foreign member of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, and Lawrence A. Mysak, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at McGill University (Montreal).

A major donation to this fund has come from the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko. A tax-deductible donation to the Royal Society of Canada - Ukraine Exchange Fund may be sent to Sandy Jackson, financial coordinator, Royal Society of Canada, Suite 308, 225 Metcalfe St., Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1P9; telephone, (613) 991-6990; fax, (613) 991-6996.

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